Ranchester High School - Rustler Yearbook (Ranchester, WY)

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FOREWORD The aim of the 1939 Rustler is to present to you the buoyant spirit of modem youth in our High School. It is a permanent record of proud achievements, fascinating activities, and many happy hours spent during the year 1938-39. It is hoped by those who have worked to make this book possible that it will not be glanced through today and then cast aside, but that it will be cherished and will conjure up memories of many happy days spent at Ranchester High School. DEDICATION The class of 1939 and 1940 take pleasure in dedicating this RUSTLER of 1939 to the members of the Ranchester School Board, past and pres- ent, who through their efforts have provided a splendid school system for us. Page 7

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FRIENDSHIP COLUMN Bill and Bell Davis Dr. Allen Dr. Bentzen Brown Drug Dr. Crane Dr. Docekal Hat Shop Drs. Schunk Schunk Dr. Hammond Lotus Theatre Dr. Stewart Dr. Hayes Pay ’n Takit Dr. Veach Dr. McBride Western Barber Shop Dr. Duncan Dr. Inglott ADVERTISERS Anne Newell’s A. W. Black Co. Baker Bros. Jewelers Bank of Commerce Ben Ralph Welding Garage B. 0. Bentley Carroll’s Furniture Champion’s City Cleaning Dyeing Corner Grocery Davis Art Studio Dayton Cafe Dodge Motors Elmgren Tailoring First National Bank Frontier Shop Fuhrmeister-Engle George Anderegg George Messick Harry Bryan’s Men’s Store Jersey Creamery J. P. Croff, Inc. Kelso Dawdy Leona’s Karmel Korn Lotus Cafe Monarch Hotchkiss Coal Co. New Method Shoe Shop New York Store Northern Seed Co. Otto F. Ernst Harness Shop Palace Cafe Piggly Wiggly Purity Bread—Billings Ranchester Service Station Ranchester State Bank Rawlings Service Station Reed Mortuary Reineke Riley Motor Co. Rochford Studio Sandwich Shop San-i-Dairy Creamery Sawyer’s Store Scales Motor Co. Schaeffer Gift and News Schreibeis Bakery Scott Snively Sheridan Beauty College Sheridan Brewery Sheridan Bread Sheridan Commercial Co. Sheridan County Electric Co. Sheridan Flouring Mills Sheridan Greenhouse Sheridan Inn Sheridan Iron Works Sheridan Meat Co. Sheridan Press Sheridan Stationery Co. Shadoan’s Men’s Store Superior Laundry Super-Made Ice Cream Talbert Typewriter Exchange Tyson’s Drug Store Vaughn Ragsdale V. C. Johnston Lumber Co. Wigwam Bakery Wyoming Electric Co. The Rustler Staff, in behalf of the student body, wishes to extend their thanks and appreciation to those represented on this page, who have made this RUSTLER possible through their loyal support in advertising.

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“AN OLD AMERICAN CUSTOM” One might go back into history many years and find that the giving of a welcome address began with the first graduation exercise which ever was held regardless of time or place. Although an old custom, the older the custom the greater is its conventional significance. For several years the seniors have looked forward to the hour of graduation. No doubt their parents and friends, have looked forward to the hour also. Yesterday has settled itself in their character and memory. Tomorrow is yet around the corner and out of sight and no one knows what it holds except that there will be the memory of what they have done today. Soon the doors of the school will be closed for the summer. The class- rooms so full of activity during the school term will be silent. The structure itself has no life. It is only dead material. The seniors owe thanks and apprecia- tion to the teachers and school officials. Their classmates and school friends are important influences in their lives. It is the people loved, enjoyed and re- membered and not the buildings. To extend a welcome carries with it a suggestion of liberty and independence. These words and the things they suggest are linked closely together all through American history. In New York harbor since 1885 stands the Statue of Liberty to welcome comers from everywhere. This colossal bronze statue is the figure of a woman bearing a torch aloft in her hand as though to offer to travelers on the troubled sea of life a home in which they may enjoy liberty and inde- pendence. The statue was designed to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of American independence, was placed in position in 1885 and unveiled in 1886, a gift to America from France. The Statue of Liberty stands at the entrance to the greatest American seaport as a symbol of welcome. Back of the symbol of welcome is a nation of people grown to greatness based on virtues of liberty and independence. The most important events in American history have served to emphasize that these virtues are more important in the minds of the American people of the present and past. To be welcome is to be free or willingly permitted to do, to have, or to enjoy anything. To have liberty is to be free from external restraint or compulsion. To extend welcome, with its implication of liberty and independence, is to offer a thing cherished most by American people. The senior’s welcome at graduation is a symbol of that spirit of liberty and independence for which principle they join the ranks of a nation willing to give its last drop of blood to defend. It is a privilege to have been born into a nation of people emphasizing these virtues so important in the happiness of every individual. In 1775 the Continental Congress adopted the several articles of the now famous Declaration of Independence. This act took place in the State House in Philadelphia which became known as Independence Hall. The bell in the State House tower rang out this declaration and became known as the Liberty Bell. Upon that bell now are the following words, “Proclaim Liberty throughout the land, to all the inhabitants thereof.” The seniors of 39 at their graduation exercises could think of nothing more fitting than to ask that those present accept their expression of welcome as a symbol of their appreciation of the spirit of liberty, and the feeling of indepen- dence which characterize the land of the free and the home of the brave. Resume of welcome address given by Winnefred Rice, May 18, 1939,